On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:20:25AM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:14:04AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > > > I am beginning to wonder if we should have a boot option that enables a > > > thorough memtest from within the kernel...(e.g. boot -m). > > > > I guess the old /dev/test_for_shoddy_workmanship driver is working :-). > > > > It's probably just bad luck -- BIOS memory testing is generally pretty > > poor, and it could just be FreeBSD stored your root vnode pointer (or some > > other critical thing) in a memory word that Win2K was using for an icon, > > so a single bit twiddle did pretty different things. Glad it's fixed. I > > occasionally wonder if we shouldn't build a memory tester into the FreeBSD > > boot loader to help diagnose this sort of stuff, though. Not to run every > > boot, but as a diagnostics option. > > Yep, exactly my thoughts. I think this is a wonderfull idea. The memtest86 program is certainly small enough that we could stick it in /boot and make sure that the loader can run it. I'd volunteer to try and do it if I were less busy myself. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green_at_FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\Received on Fri Oct 15 2004 - 08:48:39 UTC
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